Improvement in stove-boards



UNITED STATES PATENTEIOE.

JOHN S. BROOKS, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,455, dated J une 4, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

I, JOHN S. BROOKS, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Stove- Boards, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a section through the center of the board. Fig. 2 is a top View.

My improvement consists in combining an upper sheet or disk of zinc or any suitable non-conducting metal, and an under one of sheet-iron or any other cheap metal of a nature harder than that ofthe upper one. They may be held together by turning the edge of the upper disk over the edge of the under side, as shown in Fig. 1, at the end letter D. They should be cut in to any form best suited to the shape of the stove-base they are used under, and may be ornaxnented by stamping or any other suit-able way. When they are used under parlor-stoves upon carpets, they may have a paper lining added and held in place by the edges, also as shown by C C. The upper sheet is shown in Fig. l at A, and thehardmetal .sheet is shown at b b, and the top View in Fig. 2 at A.

The object of the sheet b b is to stii'en the board and prevent the marking or dinting of the surface A by the stove-legs or by the unevenness ofthe iioorin g, or by the general use of the board. It is also a preventive from rires, as in some cases stove bottoms become so much heated as to melt zinc and burn the iioor, or at least injure the carpets. The edge being turned or hemmed has a better inish,

and will lie more ilatly on the floor than where only the raw edge of the meta-l is exposed.

The improvement is easily and cheaply made. Pieces of sheet-iron may be used where the feet of the stove rest, without covering the whole of the under surface.

This stove-board can be made very thin and still have the necessary stiffness and strength. An ordinary board or stove-support construct ed in the usual way, makes great thickness, and stands high, which is unsightly, and it renders washing or dusting difficult to perform. It is cheap, costing hardly half what a Wooden board does.` The edge of the zinc can be vspun or turned around the rim and make a good iinish, no matter what is the form. It may be square or oblong, which feature cannot be done with board unless the same is ot circular form. The sheetiron prevents dinting by the stove legs. Its hardness resists the impressions, since the parts fit close together. Wood is soft and presents no resistance to indentations.

This combination allows beads and other ornamental forms to be struck up on the board to preserve their shape. Such beads or forms are struck through both the iron and zinc thicknesses, and as they fxttogether closely no iiattening down can take place. Zinc alone will not retain its place, and wood is no protection.

Claims.

1. As a new article of manufacture, the improved stove-board, made of the lower hardmetal sheet b and the upper non-conducting metal sheet A, for the purpose specified, the two being united together as herein shown and described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the improved stove board herein shown and described, consisting of the upper disk A, hardmetal disk b, and paper lining c, the same being secured together by turning the edge of the upper disk over the edge of the under side.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN S. BROOKS.

Witnesses:

R. F. Oseoon, AROHIE BAINE. 

